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Hanson Puthuff
(b. 1875, Missouri – d. 1972, Corona Del Mar, CA)
PURPLE MAJESTY (EAST SIERRA LANDSCAPE)
Oil on canvas, 24 x 28 inches
Jonathan Art Foundation collection
From 1908 to 1926 Puthuff resided in Eagle Rock, from where he would paint the foothills and valleys below the San Gabriel Mountains. In the late 1920’s he was commissioned by the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art to paint the backdrops to the museum’s habitat displays. He later moved to Corona del Mar and continued to paint coastals, deserts, mountains, and other landscapes, frequently accompanying artist Edgar Payne to trips to the Canyon de Chelly in Arizona.